Monthly Archives: August 2017

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will award up to $1 million in emergency grants to preserve humanities collections and help restore operations at libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and other cultural and historical institutions in the areas of Texas and Louisiana affected by Hurricane Harvey, Acting Chairman Jon Parrish …

Attention, grantseekers! California Humanities is now accepting applications for the next round of Humanities for All Quick Grant funding through October 16th. Guidelines, online application instructions, and FAQs are available at the HFA Funding webpage. Register HERE for the Humanities for All Quick Grants Application webinar on September 7, 2017. …

Multi-layered. Pride and Purpose. Rich History. These are just a few words to describe the artwork, the intentions, and the context of youth from the RYSE Youth Center whose work is currently on display at California Humanities. The three-month gallery display, “Richmond Renaissance” takes its name from a recent theatrical …

Scores of Southern California cultural and educational institutions are participating in the Getty-led project Pacific Standard Time: From LA to LA, a series of hundreds of public events and exhibits taking place between September 2017 and January 2018 that will illuminate the myriad ways in which Latin America and Los …

August 23, 2017 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) After a competitive grant process, 12 nonprofit organizations and public partners across the state were awarded Humanities for All Quick Grants from California Humanities, state-wide humanities nonprofit that works to connect Californians to ideas and one another. The third round of …

California Humanities offers free informational grant workshops and an online webinar on how to apply to the 2017 California Documentary Project (CDP) grant program (deadline is November 1). Are you considering applying to the 2017 California Documentary Project grant with a film, audio or digital media project? Do you have …

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) featured California Humanities supported project WAR INK. “Veterans’ tattoos document experiences and share untold stories. War Ink is a virtual exhibit that combines original video, photography and audio interviews to present the stories of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their own words. The War Ink virtual exhibit …

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Division of Public Programs, Ken Burns and Lyn Novick’s THE VIETNAM WAR, a 10-part, 18-hour documentary will premiere nationwide on Public Broadcast Service stations (PBS) September 17, 2017. On September 17, concurrent with the broadcast premiere, the first five episodes of THE VIETNAM …